Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: To our friend Dean (Dino) BenjaminBore Dec 16, 2018 at 5:01 PM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The Deals Thread FallingObjects Dec 16, 2018 at 9:41 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: Jazz nuts... earnmyturns Dec 16, 2018 at 9:30 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: Austin mini meet impressions ColtMrFire Dec 16, 2018 at 8:23 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Tutorial - Lies, Damn Lies and USB DAC technical measurements trl Dec 16, 2018 at 2:39 PM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: APB: CA Atlas - @warrior Vansen Oct 29, 2018
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Sennheiser HD650 Pillars Dec 16, 2018 at 10:11 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: My new $99 Full Balanced headphone amp toy Loxjie P20 bilboda Dec 16, 2018 at 9:20 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: JVC FD01: A new contender for best DD IEM? Merrick Dec 16, 2018 at 9:30 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Recommend a longer silver cable please Pipps Dec 13, 2018 at 2:05 AM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Modi Multibit: Multibit for the masses. GoodEnoughGear Dec 16, 2018 at 8:42 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Music Streaming Services Biodegraded Dec 16, 2018 at 8:04 AM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Phono Cartridges roscoeiii Dec 16, 2018 at 8:08 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Schiit Freya Preamp Review (Episodic) Dr J Dec 14, 2018 at 11:26 AM
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Solid-State Power Amp Adventures rlow Nov 30, 2018
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: General Speaker Advice and Recommendations briskly Dec 16, 2018 at 7:09 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Travis Manning Dec 16, 2018 at 7:23 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Massdrop x Noble X huynhhungvnr Nov 12, 2018
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: O2 Measurements & Review tomchr Dec 4, 2018
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Modi 2U and D30 DAC: Deconstructing Amir's Hack Job Part II Pillars Dec 13, 2018 at 4:27 PM
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Radial Engineering ISO Twin (Jensen transformers) technical measurements toddrhodes Nov 22, 2018
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018 at 1:25 AM
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: Presumably this will help with the Schiit EU dealers clusterfuck Vent Dec 4, 2018
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: CA Solaris jowls Dec 15, 2018 at 10:34 AM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Vansen's Music Blog Vansen Nov 3, 2018
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: Pass Labs New DIY "WHAMMY" Headphone Amp AllanMarcus Dec 16, 2018 at 1:58 PM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: WTS: Hd800 adapter, anedio d2 dac, KSA5 clone, and Aune b1s Ad-astra Dec 16, 2018 at 8:22 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: Movie Discussion Thread Pharmaboy Dec 16, 2018 at 2:59 PM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: Inspirational Stuff TwoEars Sep 20, 2018
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Videogame Discussion Thread obsiCO Dec 16, 2018 at 4:45 AM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: Beer! Cspirou Dec 15, 2018 at 7:41 PM
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: The music we make slankoe Dec 4, 2018
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) Zhanming057 Dec 14, 2018 at 12:51 AM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: Driving a Manual (Stick) toddrhodes Dec 16, 2018 at 7:18 PM
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Geek Wave final(?) development discussion - aka "please lord let it ship!" Senorx12562 Dec 16, 2018 at 8:12 PM
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Nov 15, 2018
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    3. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog Scott Kramer Dec 12, 2018 at 1:32 PM
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    4. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: The Source AV Black Friday Sale netforce Nov 21, 2018
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    5. Eddie Current

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      Latest: Black Widow [Update] - Second round official, 100 amps total, single chassis EagleWings Dec 14, 2018 at 8:19 AM
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